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Engineering the social: Students in this course use systems thinking to help solve human rights, disease and homelessness

  • Written by Raúl Ordóñez, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Dayton
Engineering the social: Students in this course use systems thinking to help solve human rights, disease and homelessnessAn engineering education can equip students to work on broader social issues. Photosomnia/E+ via Getty Images

Uncommon Courses is an occasional series from The Conversation U.S. highlighting unconventional approaches to teaching.

Title of course:

Engineering Systems for the Common Good

What prompted the idea for the course?

As a control systems...

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